Stop asking

[gordonzola]

Ok, I love all of you who have asked, but NO THIS IS NOT TRUE. AND THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY FOR IT TO BE TRUE. I am happy that you all immediately thought of me though.

Comments

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

That's even better than feeding pigeons alka-selzer.

[kneidlach.livejournal.com]

If someone asks you about this, tell them to take a block of Swiss cheese, 5 packets of poprocks, and a coca cola, and call you in the morning. I heart urban myths.

[sparkle-shortz.livejournal.com]

Is it technically an urban myth if it's just being debated by the Merchant Marine? Or is there wider prevalence to this myth?

Also, hey G, post the list of people who asked and the order in which they asked.

--competitive in Brooklyn

[kneidlach.livejournal.com]

Dear Competitive in Brooklyn,

Wikipedia says an urban myth is "a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. Urban legends are sometimes repeated in news stories and, in recent years, distributed by email. People frequently say such tales happened to a "friend of a friend" - so often, in fact, that FOAF has become a commonly used acronym to describe this sort of story. Urban legends are not necessarily untrue, but they are often false, distorted, exaggerated, or sensationalized."

So, I think that multiple people e-mailing G about a story they read on the internet which involved guys one of whom said *they* had heard it elsewhere means... It is likely that it is an urban myth, and if not, that it is destined to become one. But, on the other hand, if this is the only context it was mentioned in and it doesn't spread like wildfire across Teh Internets, then I suppose it would be a nascent urban myth that never was.

- Up to the Challenge in Oaktown

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

well, the two in the comments section of my last entry beat you by almost a full day. sorry.

improvised exploding cheese

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Mm-hm. Sure. Look, it's time to give up the pretense. We all know you're a Swiss agent.

Re: improvised exploding cheese

[lemon-says.livejournal.com]

After tricking unsuspecting customers into eating Swiss, he then goes to European hotels and steals tourists' kidneys.

Re: improvised exploding cheese

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

didn't those explode too?

Re: improvised exploding cheese

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

now I will have to kill this journal. My cover is blown!

you are so closed minded!

[spoonfeeding.livejournal.com]

my friend knows a guy this TOTALLY happened to!

Re: you are so closed minded!

[dairryiere.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I heard about that too, I think it was the Massdammer they ate.

Re: you are so closed minded!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Hey, your mechanic and Calvin both called today. I didn't know where to reach you. are you at your parents'?

[dairryiere.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm at my moms. I'll be back Sunday morning with the kids.

[knowyermonkey.livejournal.com]

thanks for the directions the other night...two girls in a car with no sense of direction is a bad thing

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

haha. you guys were so cute! It's true that many San Franciscans have a hard time finding the East Bay.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

I also thought of you when yesterday's 'featured article' on wikipedia was the article on 'cheese'.

[loolica.livejournal.com]

they don't even mention death by rolling 200 lb wheel of emmental, which, surely, must account for dozens of deaths a year. i mean, alps and all.

[flipping-hades.livejournal.com]

Seriously, what's up with that?

Or that cheese race in Britain, where they chase a wheel of cheese down a hill. Kind of a steeplecheese, if you will. There were *actual* injuries in that! I'm surprised they haven't been inflated into deaths.

Hollywood already knows this

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

If it doesn't explode, Americans don't care.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

those cheese chasers knew what they were signing up for.

[flipping-hades.livejournal.com]

And I forever thank them for giving me the opportunity to say "steeplecheese".

[woolly.livejournal.com]

Yes us Brits have more cheese than sense. The Cheese Rolling commences May 29th 2006 should anyone fancy breaking a few bones in the pursuit of cheese.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

don't forget the shortened lifespan of the cheese turners. It's a rough way to make a living.

[trixiefirecat.livejournal.com]

i didn't see it before i saw this post, but it seems absurd that it wouldn't have made the news before. how funny!

[elementa.livejournal.com]

thanks, man. I can rest easier now.

Okay, now what about the lost cheese? I'm scared to swim in the fjord. http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/10/10/cheese20051010.html

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

haha. You know I've been following that in the trade journals. Those tend to be pretty old guard and the idea of sinking cheese to make it taste better was ridiculed severely. Now there will be open laughter because beofre people were hedging their bets just a little in case it turned out to be true.

[loolica.livejournal.com]

"It got too expensive," said cheesemaker Luc Boivin. "At some point, you can't be crazy."

yes, and apparently the point of crazy is not the one where you sink the cheese, but the one where you continue to look for it?

[sarahshevett.livejournal.com]

That is SO fucked up

Thank You For This Site!

[cuervolinda.livejournal.com]

I am reading the other entries and it is ADDICTIVE! I might have to repost some of the better ones.